The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

ONEY MARKETi AN!) - OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, Two o'CLooK. As intimated some days since, the Stock Ex. change has been closed today by order of the com. Inittee. In the general Disount Market there continues to be a very active demand for money both at the tank and in Lombard -street, and 6 per cent. is the current rate for oven the finest paper, although there is a slight increase is the supply of capital. Since Monday last the imports of specie have lit:counted to £299,900, and the exports to £576,077. The share certificates of the Baugparah Tea Estates Company will be exchanged for the bankers' receipts on and after Tuesday lux , . The directors of the Assam Company have an nounced an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent., payable on the 24th inst. There were no bullion operations at the Bank yesterday, A slight downward movement took place in the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. Messrs J. Travers and Sons, in their weekly cit.. eular, make the following remarks on the Money Market at the close of the year :—" It is remark able that, atter all the anxiety and pressure of the Year, and the apprehension that was at one time expressed in several quarters that the worst would tot be witnessed until November and December, Nye now find ourselves actually restored to what may almost be considered a normal position. The bullion in the Bank is about £lOO,OOO in eXcess of its amount at the same date of 1 863, and the reserve is stronger by haif million while, at the same time, there Is the important consideration that the tendency, unlike that which prevailed last Christmas. is still towards improvement. But it is not the position of the Money Market on this side, favourab►e though it be, that is the chief cause of congratula tion. Twelve months ago the bullion in the Bank of France was reduced to a point lower than had ever been known, and with such a fact in view, them could be no hope of money remaining even in moderate supply in London. Now the bullion in the Bank of France is double the amount at which It then stood, and the rate of disc)unt at that establishment was accordingly reduced on Thursday to 41 per cent., a state of ease not experienced at any time within the past year and a quarter. In London the rate still remains at 6 Per cent., and no expectation is entertained that any fresh reduction will be adopted until the be ginning of the year, but unless some wholly bulooked-for change of tone should occur in the interval, there seems every probability that a return to 5 per cent. may then be temporarily witnessed. Whether during the year 1865 any continuance of moderate rates can be looked for is a point that will be regarded with much doubt." The following is Messrs Mecatta and Goldsmid's list of the latest prices of bullion :—Bar gold, 77s 9d per cz standard ; do Parting, 778 lld ; doubloons, Spanish, 74s to 75s per oz; do Mexican end South American, 73s 9d to 745; United States eagles, 76s 2id to 3d; bar silver, 5s lid to f d per ex standard, nothing doing; do,:containing 5 grains of gold and upwards, 5s lid; Mexican dollars, 6 3 Old per oz, last price. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Per Cent. Consols „ Do Account, Jan. 10 t per Cent. Reduced .. 881 i A„,,ew 3 per Cent BBl 1 oew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 . ... Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — 4 nnuities, 30 yrs, expire bth J an., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — c •ltchequer Bills, £l,OOO, &per Cent..... par 3 pn2 Do £5OO .. Do £lOO and £2OO '''olk England Stk, 51 per. Ct. o Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. tadia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 Shut Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 .... Di Account Da 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do 5i per Cent., May, 1879 .. Do 4 p er C en t., Aug. 1866 Du boucle/A.OW - Do under £I,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES tastrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — r,izili an 5 per Cent Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do 1863 B3l Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account.... , — Hbilian 6 per Cent. uolorabian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. - Do 6 per C ent . 1864 "itnish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 5 p er C en t, 1864 ~Ii)o 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 p a id pm ' o oador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — -Do, Provisonal Land Warrant., 'B'Vptian 7 per Cent 951 6 Do, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do 1864 941 5 Do Scrip, £l5 p a id .. i 1 pm "reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupon s .. Do Account Do Coupons i .,De Account 4 Uatenaala 5 per Cent. ..— it Do 18 and 1859 i l alian 5 per Cent.(Alaremmana Railway) —. exioan 3 per Cent Do Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — dis Do Scrip, £53 paid uDo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 200 dis x d ' xi oorish Imperial 5 per Cent e.,." Granada Do 2 per Cent..... Do Deferred D 0 Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Do do Aug., 1866 — cJrusian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) .. — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 .. p Do Account ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .. — Do Account .. Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. bDo Account .. 481 7 1 m qssian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St., BBf Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. 871 7 Do 1860 — P,O 3 per Cent 1869 "0 , • 5 per Cent, 1862 bc 1364 4 Do Scrip, £65 paid 4 rdinian c per Cent .... 9 Do Aecount — knieh 3 per Cent 1 20 Account 4Bl Do New Deferred Do is Account Do Passive i i ., 13 0 Account 32i 1 1 Panish Cert. of Coup not funded — Tl.lO Account .. 141 14 1 * edish, 4 per Cent. — I t s rkish 6 per Cent. 1854 ~"0 Account 4 -0 6 per Cent.;lBsB , (1 0 Account 7Ol f Do 0 £lOO Bonds — l t , ) 0 6 per Cent. 1862 :Jo Account . 721 1 ~,'°o £lOO Bonds.. ",„0 6 per Cent. 1863 "0 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. .. lOO Ve nezuela,,, 3 per Cent. "„0 Account .',.0 6 per Cent., 1862 ,1-.;0 Account ~"0 6 p Cent., 1864 ,. 411 f 4 " 0 11 per Cent A Dividends on the above payable in London ill:Arian, 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins. IPean 41 per Cent., ' Ex. 25f 4 .,.t \ ch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil — lii," o 4 per Cent. Certificates It -( 1! 101 1 Rentea, 3 per Cent ........ i :ala, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. 41 1 0 Account rix . , Irian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct.Ex 4s. ' 4111 01148e, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f — THREE O'CLOCK. ools, Money 0 lieconn.t P. TAL ACCIDENT IN A CHAPEL.--On Thursday ti quest was held in Myddelton-street, Clerkenwell, on tb;,, b °4 of Mr Samuel Harris, aged 61 years, a master qt,'" , ter and undertaker, who lost his life whilst engaged in iiriag a cistern at Woodbridge Independent Chapel t ot Jury thought the trustees of the chapel were to blame 1 , " 4 v/in such a ladder to be in use. They returned a ) e tli f. g , E1(1, 1 c- of "Accidental death." The coroner ordered the A er to be destroyed. lvt, t FEMALE HERO.—An octogenarian named ka." 'N3erring, has died at Burnham. The old lady was tvh e tt with her first husband at the battle of Trafalgar, ikeet;Neleion exterminated the n av i es o f F rance and Spain. t lf th le quently recounted many of the most stirring events lotitha! Period, and was never tired of telling that she I kt e t t he blood from the shirt which the gallant admiral '4611 he received his fatal wound, SHARE MARKETS, •31litre' iF Paid. Closing eilways. 1 , Prioe. IS.III, 8t st st 50 ZO , Bir., Vol., and Str. Val.' all mythe and Tyne. ! 100 Bristol and Exeter lOO Caledonian ... 100 York and Bandon I an Cornwall all Do A A gets no div i p c.p an. has " till 6 ll Do. B all been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June., all Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc.! all Edinburgh & Glasgow.' 100 Glasg. and S. Western. 100 Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st. GreatNorthof Scotland' Great Northern Do A stock Do 13 do Gt. S. an •i W. of Irelan Great Westero,Original Do Str Val gua. titOOK Do. South Wales Do. oit:mt Mid. -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire; London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast; Lon., Chat., and Dover, Lon. & North Western Lon. & So•.th Western , Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do Z shares • Metropolitan Midland Do Birming. & Derby uid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent .. North British . I Edin., Perth, & Dundee' Nth. Eastern—Berwio. Do, G.N.E. purchas, Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stook. & Darling Do do 1855-58 Do do ls North London Do New Do New, 1864. North Staffordshire Y. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot JN. E. ' Aber. stow., Do Soot. Mid, stook 1 Shrews, and Welohpooi Shropshire Union South Devon ,South Eastern stain es, Wok., and Wok Taff Vale.. .. • Do C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Hard qt, 87 89 131 132 6 7 31 86 16 17 83 91 106 108 471 181 7a 8i 13 t 136 156 157 130 132 SO 01 79 l'iti 67 69 58 60 44 46 100 162 1164 )17 83 84 105 106 38 40 120 12 97 98 64 65 121 )22 1391 r4O 109 Xll 85 66 254 464 11l 114! 72i 73i IJ4 104, 37# 11 12p 9 10 , 120 125 2p 1 1i 79 60 101 138 :42 58 09 44 46 86 b6l 8 9 163 168 3} 4i I) 1,9 111 59 45 i 86 38 40 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLO, BUSitleelP done. 89 1311 t 471 8i 114 54 1554 6 79 f 1161 S 3 105 6 6 120 97 1 f 1 VI 64& I 4 t 139( 6 114 13! 141 721 101 f i V 80 11i 140 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. aftilwaym ttlantio & Rt Lawrenct tom.,Baroda&Cent In. Gu. 6 per cent Do. E. Shares.. Buffalo and Laaellurop Do. Preference ..•• • - Suflalo,Brant,&Godriel p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 157 )o. do. July 1, 182 )0. do. June 1. 18, nlcutta.BzS.Eastn.(l,i' Fl.pe'Town L.- Dock Seri Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf ,4,astn. Bengal g u. ,7• p. bast Indian, gu. 5 p. e Do. do. J Ext.. hand Trunk of Calm Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge u per cent. Do. Ist Fr t.,. Bonds. . Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P. ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred..... Do. 4th I'ref. stook... Do. do. deferred...... Ut.lndlarenin.guo..sp.c Do. Gua. 5 per cent .. Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... it. South.of India(Lim uaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 41 per cent Do it. W. of Canada Share, Do. New Do. 6 p.O. '73 with't opt 1)o. 5i p. 0. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4} p. o. Extensioi, De. 44 do Do. Fifth Extension. lielb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds & Hobson's Bay. ewßr unswiok Candy Class A. and B N.itl.C'da6 po Ist pt bd , &dude Do. Delhi. )o. do ••• Do. Punjaub t)o. Indus. St. Flog) all 100 lo( 1100 C 2 1 U 100 Paid. Closing Price. 58 60 1024 103/ Idle 1p 5 51 81 91 75 80 98 100 8) 85 1021- 3} 104} 9 81 103} 103 i 103 104 104 105 21 22 80 91 70 72 61 64 66 68 56 58 53 54 47 50 39 32 28 30 103 k 1041 pr t p pr 4p 101 103 9 Oi 11i 11 , 88 40 80 62 1 d 104 1031 98 08 91 03 59 61 3 F 2 Si 101 103 104 1036 / Id il) 103 101 t! 95 97 ( share 100 dr 20 zOi 10 steok stook 10 took 10 too stook stock stock stock hook stock 20 stock SrOok COLONIAL 00 V ERN MENT SEC!! RATIN. `British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.-1 100 - - -- Do. do. 1883.... 100 - - - .tiov.(tp.c.Ja ,ILJ -- 1877-81 . us , 99 101 Do. 6p. e. Feb .& Au, tOt 97 99 - 00.6 p. c.3lar.k Sept 10( 97 99 • Do. Ep. c. Jan.&.11113. 10, 88 90 Do. 5 Inscribed stoc,. 100 86 89 - .aye G. Hope, 6 p c,187; 10(• 03 105 107 Do.Ap & Oct. 188( 100 106 108 1069 - Do. 181 p to( 106 108 - 'o. Jan. & July. 1891 I.ou 109 111 - :epon, Nov.lP6i, 6p , 10( 102 104 - ..,o. 1878, do. 100 ( , 9 112 - Ilauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 05 107 - Do. 1878 10, 06 109 - Do. :882 IJO 106 108 - Veal Gov. 6 per cent 100 1 , ,4 106 - 1.8.G0v.6 p.c. J a.&Jul) 10i, 98 101 ' - q. S.W. Gov. 6p :.,18:,, 100 98 100 - Du. sp. 04801 to LP 100 95 97 --. Do. d0.,1888 &upwdt 100 94 96 919 51 - iew Zealand 6 p cent 100 105 107 - %lova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. - sterling, 1875. lou 99 101 100 - 2ueensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 104 10) 1049 9 - ~ Aus Gov. 6 p.c.1t68- 100 - - - Do. 178 kut.ward( 10(, 107 109 - Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.k.July, 100 - Do. to 6 p.c. An.StOot 1 100 IBM 107 1 BRITISH MINES. 2 art(i)rlan COllBOl. Gold 1 - Chiverton .. ... 3 01 . 1 % - ~,t iora Amalgamated - 341 - levon G. Cono.(Tavist 1 580 600 - Drakewal:s....,.. 2.1.0. 9 1 - .!set Bassett (Illogan) .so 47 49 - Rest Caradon ...... 't.l4., 17 18 - 'ast Carn Brea 3.4.. , 61 7 - East Grenville 2.7.0. 56 6 - East Lovell ..l a .. !.. 2.13.6. 144 155 --e,. W 'lltuasel avistk 0.13.! 5 51 - 4s.m.kSt.Aubyn(Gwen 60 5 7 4 Great Laxey, 1in)...: all 18 19 18) - 0 reat Swan 'Polgus Lis 14 2 219 - i. Wheal Vor(Uelston 10 335 346 331 - irenville . - lend's-Foot . N. 13 85 37 - ; ingston Downs..... 4.18. s 4 46 Margaret (Uny Lelat: : 6 8 9 - larke Valley.. 4 .rn(iv Iron Oro (Lim. 'q ! 16 r. - NTangiles... ... . /9 18 - ow Setun 216 00 70 -• orth D0wn. . . .. 3 li - North Roskear 294 17 19 - sll (I', isasset( i Ilo.vu 3.1 , .6 1 2 - orth Wheal Crotty . 2.8.0 2 24 - Prosper United...., 7.1 . ,. 2 3 -. .•rovidence( tiny Lelut 106.7 34 38 - south Caradon(St.Cleet la 20 540 ~ .Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.1..1 33 36 - stray Park -01 n Crott , 16 17 - Nest Basset (Mogan) _ 16 7 9 74 9 - A' C , radon (Liskeard 9 7 9 - West Chiverton .., lO 55 60 - West Seton - Wheal Basset (Mogan, 5 4 921 976 - , 'Veal Buller(ltedrut!!, 10 9 ii - Wheal Lud•ott ....... . 3.5. - 6 4, - Wheal Mary Ann ( * Men. 8 13 Is - Wheal fieton 684 .95 205 - Vheal Tretawney (Lis. 7 17 19 - I Wheal Union 4 6 t PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 1(6 Ditto, No. , 106 Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref.. 104 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stook, Ditto, 4i per cent., Blackburn put, 99 1 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Rahia and San Francisco kli.n.) gua. 7 per cent, 141 Dutch Rhenish. 216 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), lOg San Paulo(lim.),kcua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), fq South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 1 4 . 0* West Flanders, 5 per cent. pf., 9/ I BANK. Alliance tlim.l. 84 41 Ditto, new, 84 3 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 10 is pd ,18} Anglo Austrian, o E Australasia, 681 Bank of British Columbia, 171 Bank of London. Ditto. new, 21 Br:mill-in and Portuguese, lim., 101 British and Californian, lira., 81 British North American, 50 491 Chartered Bank of India. Australia. and China. 341 Chartered Arer. of India. London, and China, 6111 Consolidated Bank, Urn_ 111 European Bank, lim., 13} a Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pin., 211 Ditto, issued at 6 pm.. 8 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 71 London and County. 81 2 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exohange, London Joint Stock, 50 1 Ditto, new, 37/ London and 11 eetminster, 981 National of Liverpool, limited, 19 National Bank, Ditto, new, 81i 1' Sande, Punjaub, and Delhi, Um., 11:1 Union of Australia,7s4l 4 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, lim., 4131 Contract Corporation, lim., 2 Oredit Foncior and Mubitier of England, Ditto (Lt'), 61 East India Irrigation and Canal, 6 Ebbw Vale, 4 1 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, 111:13., 5 1 Electric Telegraph, 11l Financial Corporation, Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Sm., 6i• Hudson's Bay, 161 Humber Iron Works, 4 Imperi4l Meroantile Credit A sso., lim.. 811 International Financial society, Rm., 71 Joint Stock Discount `lim., 91 London Financial Association, llm. , 241 k Ditto, new, 251 London General Omnibus Company, 31 London Provincial Marine, 3 Milwall Iron Works, 4/ National Disoount Company, lira Hi I Oriental Financial, Urn., 6 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 771_8 8011th Aultrall4l3,,Lazd l 81 blIN; LONDON, -SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF WILFUL DAMAGE.-Mr Mitchell, a builder, of 'Warwick-road, Pimlico, was charged, before Mr Knox, with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, a table, and a looking-glass, of the value of £2, the property of Mr Bird, a coffeehouse-keeper, of Green-street, Leicester square. The complainant said—Last evening, about 7 o'clock, the defendant came to my house with a female, and asked for a bed for himself and wife. He was told ho c Juld have one, and he was shown into a room and had a fire lit, and di.. rectly after he aimed a blow at my wife. I went upstairs, and the defendant then said, " Who are you, you bully ?" I held the defendant for some time, and he then broke from me and seizod the fire-tongs, and we had a scuffle. The defendant then broke a mahogany table and a looking-glass, and went down stairs and broke a large pane of glass in the shop-door. The whole of the damage amounted to V. The defendant had been drinking. Defendant— Did you not attack me, and ask me it I had had enough ? Complainant—No. Mr Knox—What sort of house do you keep ? Camplainant—A respectable house, I have gentlemen from the country stay with me, and three left last night in consequence of the defendam's conduct. _ _ Police-constable 55 C—On going up I saw the com plainant and defendant struggling together. Complainant said defendant had smashed his window. It was a large pane of glass. The defendant had been drinking. Mr Knox—Now, defendant, let me hear your story. Defendant— I was asked by a female to give her a cup of tea, and she took me into a room where there was a bed. A fire was then lit by a woman, and 6s demanded of me, with the threat that I should not leave until I had paid it. The complainant was then called up, and he threw me on the bed. I stood on my defence, but although struck several times (the defendant's face bore marks of punishment) and kicked, I only stood on the defensive, fearing to strike the complainant, as I was in his power. I had a struggle with complainant, and in it the table and looking.glass were broken. I got out of the room atter a quantity of my hair was torn off my head, the complainant's wife striking me as well as the husband. I have the mark of a kick on my leg inflicted by the complainant. At last I broke away, and, on getting out of the door the window of it was broken. I was struggling with_the complainant when the constable came up. Mr. Knox—l have heard quite enough of this case. There is not much doubt what sort of house the complainant keeps, I shall discharge the defendant, and if the com plainant thinks proper he can seek a remedy in anuther Court. I believe the defendant has been very badly treated, and I will not to interfere. I believe the defendant has told the truth. The defendant was then discharged. An attempt at applause at the conclusion of the magistrate's remarks being got up was instantly repressed. THAMES. THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE '6 EASON.—Samuel Myers, a cab driver, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with being drunk and inonable of taking care of himself and his horse and cab. A police-constable named Myers, No. 502 K, saw the prisoner's horse and cab last night in Lincoln-street, Mile end. The prisoner's head was on his horse, and his heels were on his box. He was dead drunk, and he was removed from his ignoble position and put into the cab, which was driven to the green-yard. His master was put to the ex pense of green-yard fees. Please, Sir, said the prisoner, it's Christmas time. Mr Partridge—•lf it is that is no reason you should make yourself intoxicated, and endanger your own life and the lives of people in the public streets. The prisoner—My fare gave me something to drink be.. cause it's Christmas. Mr Partridge—You are fined ss. Henry Cobb, a cabdriver, was next charged with being drunk and incapable. He was driving a fare in Stepney, and nearly overturned his horse and cab. A gentleman in the cab roared out for aid. The horse was stopped and prisoner lifted off the box. Mr Partridge fined the prisoner ss. Henry Love, cabdriver, was charged with a similar offence. A police-constable saw the prisoner at two o'clock this morning near the George public- house, Commercial• road, very drunk, and quite unable to drive his horse, which fortunately was sober, and proceeded quietly along the road. The Prisoner—l own I was drunk. A gentleman gave me a glass of rum. I suspect it was drugged, for it sewed me up directly. Mr Partridge—Pay 5s for being drunk and incapable. Charles Fox was charged with being drunk and incapable, while in charge of a horse and cab. He was asked for his _ _ license and badge. He said he had neither ; he was only a horse-keeper, and his master entrusted him with a horse and cab in the absence of the regular man. A gentleman gave him two glasses of whisky, and it had an effect upon him. Mr Partridge—You had no right to drive without a badge. You are fined 40s. Drunken cabmen must be taught to keep sober. Their drunkenness appears to be on the increase. WESTMINSTER. A DRUNKEN CABMAN, AN " ELEVATED " FARE, AND A " GROGGY" HORSE.—Charles Ellis, a cabman, was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of his horse and cab late on the previous night. Henry Postern, 281 R, said that he was on duty in the Fulham-road when he saw the horse in defendant's cab coming towards him at a slow rate, and apparently not under control. On its approaching nearer, the defendant fell off the box, and witness picked him up, and, finding he was drunk, conveyed him to the station. In answer to the magistrate, defendant said he had a fare in his cab at the time, It was suggested by the defendant that there was much to ctuse the offence—the extreme coldness of the weather, the near approach of Christmas, the fact of the liquor hav ing had more than its usual influence, and the presumption that the horse was a little "groggy." Mr Selfe thought it premature to celebrate Christmas be fore it arrived, and fined defendant 10s, or imprisonment for seven days. Mr Weeks, the fare whom the previous defendant had in his cab, was next charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. Police-constable Postern said that he found the gentle man in the cab drunk, and seeing he could do nothing with him took him to the police station in the cab. Mr Selfe pointed out to the defendant that he had been found in a very awkward position. Defendant said he had been very unfortunate in his selec tion of a.cab. Feeling himself a little "elevated" he called a cab in order to be driven home in safety, but had picked a cabman, as it seemed, in a worse condition than himself, whereby both had got into trouble. If the cabman had been sober nothing of the sort would have happened. The de fendant did not consider there was much the matter with him. The police declared that when taken out of the cab at the station he was so intoxicated that he could not give his name and address. He was fined 55., which was immediately paid, but the cabman was locked up. SUELTON'S ANALYSIS of the various horses en gaged in the Derby, the Oaks, the One Thousand, and Two Thousand Guineas has just been published. It contains, besides the analysis of the four great races, reports from all the principal racing stables. Though small in size, the amount of valuable hints thrown out with regard to the horses engaged in the various races above-mentioned will be found of inestimable value to those wishing to make investments so long before any of the races come off. No one ought to back a horse without previously providing himself with a copy of this useful guide, EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.—The Court of Assizes of Haute-Loire has just been occupied with the trial of a man, named Baptiste Fautry on a charge of fratricide. It appeared from the indictment that the father of the prisoner finding himself too old to manage his pro perty, made a division of it between Urbain and Baptiste (the prisoner), his two sons, and his two sons in law, named Sejalon and Blanc. In August last, when this partition took place, Baptiste considered that ho had not been fairly treated, and resolved to avenge himself on his family. On the 20th of August, when all the family were assembled at their evening meal, he entered his room with a double barrelled gun in his hand, and levelling it at his brother Urbain, killed him on the spot ; he then discharged the second barrel at his brother-in-law, Blanc, whom he seriously wounded in the right shoulder. He next attacked his father with a sharp weapon like a lance, which he had prepared for the purpose,and indicted severe wounds on the old man. Some persons rushing into the zoom, in con sequence of an alarm having been given, overpowered the prisoner and gave him into custody, Baptiste, when be.. fore the court, did not attempt to deny the crime imputed to him. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with extenu- ating circumstances, and the prisoner was condemned to hard labour for life. BREA.XFAST BEVERAGE.—Homeapathie practitioners and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc trine of homeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Homeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli cious aroma. Dr. Hassan!, in his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says -"Cocoa contains a great variety of im portant nutritive principles —every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." again : "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured In tin-lined Vb., ilb„ and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by 9,11 groCtrs, tonfctioners, xad cllemists.-[Apvt] MARKETS—This Day. CO VENT Our market is seasonably vegetables. The trade was si GARDEN. well supplied with fruit and teady, at the annexed rates : IT. rnu: s. d. s. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Foreign do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 5 0 to 10 0 Foreign do 0 0 to 0 0 Melons .. Nectarines, per de 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 0 to 3 6 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..4 0 to 8 0 Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberries hi sveo 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 S. d. S d 11Iulberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 8 Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 0 9to 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0 Peaches, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0 Currants, per b.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per do. 4 6to 5 0 Damsons, pr d 0... 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 4 oto 5 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 1 3to 2 0 Horseradish, pdo 4 oto 2 6 ditto 2 oto 3 6' Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 1 oto 2 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 3to 3 0 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli 0 10 to 1 3,1 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 6 Potatoes, per ton 60 0 tol2o 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto o 0 New ditto, pr cwt 0 oto 0 0 1 Mushrooms, p pt. 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do 4 6to 5 6, Cos lett, score .. 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0) Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, h.-sy. 0 oto 0 0 1 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 N'rench beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 1 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 2 oto 2 6 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Spinach 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Brussels sprouts 1 6 toe 0; Seakale, per bun. 2 oto 3 0 POULTRY. Turkeys, Cs 6d to 50s Od ; geese, 7s Od to 108 Od each ; goslings, Os to Os Od ; ducks, 3s Od to 5s Od ; ducklings, Os Od to Os Od; rabbits, is Od to is 9d each; wild do., 9d to is 2d; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 9d each; Surrey fowls, Os Od to 14s Od ; chickens, 7s to lOs Od ; barn door fowls, 3s Od to 75 cd ; capons, Om Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; ptarmigan, Os to Os Od each ; pheasants, 3s Od to 4s Od ; partridges, is Od to 2s ; woodcocks, 3s to 3s 6d; snipes, Od to is Od; teal, is Gd to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to 4s Od ; widgeons, 2s Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os 6d to is each ; guinea fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; roasting pigs,•Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, is 2d to is 4d ; English, is 4cl to ls 6d per lb ; English eggs, 12s Od to lls Od ; French do., 8s Od to lis Od per 100 ; leverets, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; grouse, 2s 61 to 3s Od. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Od ; eels, 8d to Is ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb ; turbots, 5s Od to 25s ; cod, 7s Od to 21s Od ; brills, 2s Od to Os Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, is Od to 6s 6d ; lobsters, is Od to 3s; crabs,6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and garnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 6d to 2s 6d per pair; common oysters, 14s to 4 s ; natives, 90s to —s per bush. ; whitings, Is Od to 2s , hfs,ddocks, 3s 6d to 4s ; smelts, Oa Od to Os Od ; flounders, Os 01 per dozen ; mackerel, Os to 50s per 120 ; fresh herrings lOs to Os per 120 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and ten,w, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 58 Od , mutton, 3s 8d to 85 Od ; lamb, O Od to Os Od ; veal, 43 Od to 5s Od ; and pork, 3s 8d to 5s Od per 81bs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. • Beef, from 2s 10d to 5s ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; veal, 4s otoss Od ; and pork, 33 8d to 58 Od per Sibs, by the earcase, BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 6id to 7d , of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2ld to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 33 to 3ld ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 31d ; 801 b to 881 b, 3ld to 4d ; 881 b to 961 b, 3d to ; '96lb to 1041 b, 3d to 41d ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 411 to sd. Horse hides, 9s Od to lOs Od ; calf skins, light, 2s dd to 4s Od ; full, 7s 6d to Os Od ; polled shoep, 10s 6d to 13s Od ; half-breds, 9s Od to 10s 6d ; Downs, 6s 9d to 8s Od; lambs, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SatrumELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £6 5s Od ; clover, £6 53 to £6 63 Od ; and straw, LI 83 to £1 123 per load Trade firm. CUAIRBRLAND—..Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 53 Od; clover £5 be to £6 6s Od ; and .atraw, £1 8e to £1 12e per load A fair demand. WHITECHAPIL,—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 bs Od ; clover, £5 6s to £6 6s Od; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. Trade steady. COAL MARK ET. Prtoes of Coal per 'Ton at the close of the market.• S. d. Walls End. Cowpen Hartley.. t 9 3 i a. 0. liolywell 19 6 Tunstall Elastings Hartley ....19 3 Tiaswell ...24 6 West Hartley l9 3 Hetton 23 6 Wylam 19 6, Heugh Hall 23 0 Ships at market, 29; sold, 29, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day, LONDON, Dec. 24.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy and cold. PILL, Dec. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Penelope, for Africa. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Volun ;eer, from Havre for Liverpool, with loss of jibbootn and other damage. OFF DOVER, Dec. 22.—Wind Arrived—Margarel from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, Dec. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eagle, from Rio Grande. TROON, Dec. 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Portia, for Demerara. QUBENSTOWN, Dec. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady Seholefield, from Callao for Liverpool—Mary Jane, from Demerara for Liverpool. OFF CROOKIIAVEN, Dec. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived. China, steamer, from New York. CLYDE, Dee. 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Morning Star, from Old Calabar—Thistle, from Quebec—Amoor, from Manritius. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived—Frederike, from Gothenburg—Moselle, from Antwerp—Onega, from Dantzic. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed, back - of Goodwin Sands, on list--Fahrenheit From Danialc, Sailed, in tow—Ciminar and Briton's Pride, for London. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Railways. Miles opened. Receipts. 1864. 1863. Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 Belfast and County Down.— 49 49 Blyth and Tyne 2O 13 Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 Caledonian Cambrian Cockermouth & Workington 54 84 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 3 24 27 Cork and Youghal • • 61 61 Cornwall 656 651 Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 914 91i Furness, ezc 5O 6 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eas tern,Nrik.,&E. Union Great Northern 387 353 Great North of Scotland 6B 68 Ut. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7l 7/§ rilt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 387 393 1 Great Western 1222 1169 Hull and Hornsea l3 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 1174 1064 Inverness & Perth Junction ii 94 1191 Irish North-Western 145 145 4 Kent Coast 27 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 77 20 t 4 321 Limerick and Ennis... 244 24f Limerick and Foynes 261 261 Llanelly 4 LLoi y n n d v o i n s, N Valley or t h -Western 12 London and Blackwall 5l 54 London & South-Western Load. Brighton, &S. Coast 267/ 2611 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 721 Do. Metropolitan Extension 114 101 Lon.. Tilbury, & Southend Han.,Sheilieid, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.J um & Altrincham 94 04 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6MI 641 Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 262 2591 Monkland 7ll 711 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 1095 North London 9 9 North Staffordshire 254 254 Rhymney l9l 194 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1321 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 South Devon South-Eastern 306 306 Tail' Vale 57 57 Ulster Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neath 431 434 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 West Cornwall 271 274 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 Whitchaven Junction l2 12 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco .. • Belgian Eastern Junction 261 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851- Detroit and Milwau.kie Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Eastern Bengal llO East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1335 Great Central of Belgium 22J Great Indian Peninsula 553 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India .. • • 7 9 Great Western of Canada 345 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant Northern of Canada . Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 Paris and Orleans 1616 Pernambuco 771 Scinde lO5 Do. Punjab, &c 32 South Austrian Southern of France 0 ... 823 Victoria Welland 25 West Flanders 75 West & N- Westn of France lO4l 828 76f 261 1851 189 1864. 1081 1,901 670 1,951 6,337 19,0.9 1,493 311 326 374 1,431 298 1,3 1,570 '275 2,155 2,983 8,257 3 ,364 33,362 1,625 446 7,630 64,975 1,248 ),131 1,601 790 34,240 155 163 2.140 642 1,255 5,324 17,768 1,448 257 352 129 1,036 1,098 1.692 235 35,624 154 334 19,561 19,313 59,355 54,938 3,143 3,060 8,513 8.33 966 950 5,454 6,179 4,846 4,823 828 658 3,593 3,59$ 19,932 19,388 5,310 6,005 2,513 2,404 147 135 2,727 2.320 453 302 1,183 1,141 1335 5381 134 754 738 4,340 3.705 565 552 937 932 891 916 37,648 82,219 345 322 6,361 6,360 5,356 3,861 68,175 63,221 2,5,466 25,864 6,594 6,316 4,551 3.807 79 527 512 3!5 12,367 12,925 446 6,392 4,590 650 17,185 17,223 94 1,8)0 1,088 697 60,154 57,0 4 44 7,059 888 481 546 345 1788 139,088 136,682 1611 67,418 68,100 774 669 518 105 2,01,0 1,533 32 1505 770 196 25 291 215 5 ,901 48,189 28,239 27,351 10,163 8,013 1,021 969 1,962 88,458 ORTH AMERICAN AND WEST INDIA STATION.— The British fleet on the North American station has sailed from Halifax for the West Indies. The flagship will winter at Jamaica instead of Bermuda, as usual, owing to the yellow fever prevailing in the Wands. The Challenger will remain at Halifax until January, when she will be relieved by a smaller vessel of the squadron and proceed to England: The Yelverton Case. Mrs Yelverton has addressed the following letter to the Weekly „Register : " Sir,—l notice in your columns of Saturday a long space devoted to my case, which is ably and clearly put, save in some particulars which you cans• didly admit you are unable to cope with, namely, Scotch law. As one or two of those errors are serious, although inadvertent and natural on your part, will you permit me a short space to rectify them ? In the first place, the suit is not concluded, nor, I regret to say, any way near its termination. Le gally, as well as morally, I am in point of law, Mrs Yelverton, the judgment of the Lords not being is yet ex'rected, which alone ter minates the case, so far as Scotch law is concerned. That decision does not, as lam advised, annul the Dablin verdict, effect the Irish marriage, or prevent its being proved by direct issue. Considering, therefore, that it has taken five years, in a suit brought against me by my husband —and in which I have merely been defending my self—to obtain a decision in his favour, not yet final, it may probably take the same period when I take the initiative. This may be unpleasant intelligence to some of your readers, who naturally become weary of a long and com2licated case; bu', if, as you say, in your intercourse, you have found no persons expressing their sympathy and satisfaction with the conclusion of the three law lords, how is it to be expected that I should be content ? The public are dissatisfied because they believe it unjust, but I, the victim, feel it as a legal cruelty, which has no parallel in the annalsof this country. That a lady should have a sentence passed upon her, not simply annulling her marriage, but degrading her to the rank of an outcast,eo that English journalists consie der they are entitled to rank her with the classically notorious Phryne, has no counterpart in our judicial records. And for what crime has she merited such a punishment ? Because she was a Catholic, and understood marriage to be a sacrament. She ob tained the sacrament, and thus destroyed the validity of the marriage, owing to a penal law enacted centuries ago for the special persecution of Catholics. I appeal to every Catholic lady, to every Englishwoman, whether I am not bound, in honour and in conscience, to assert my wifehood, and, having asserted, maintain it ? Yes, though my whole life's struggle paid the sacrifice. Before Heaven I am bound to bear witness to the truth of the vows I plighted at the altar, where God was nay witness, and not tostand silently by whilst the whole world is scandalised by the startling theory set up by my opponents that Catholic marriages are merely religious farces gone through at pleasure as a c'oak to vice. Am I to allow a Protestant world to suppose that Catholics have forms and ceremo nies which resemble and are little better than the orgies of Vishnu? Yet a judge on the bench be lieved that the sacred joining together of man and wife by a Catholic priest was the most disgraceful and blasphemous thing he had ever heard of. He believed it wss a mockery and a farce, and that we Catholics can obtain from our ministers sanction for such things. I ask you, was this an imputation for any Catholic, any Christian,to submit to in silence ? As you justly remark, had I not been a Catholic such infamy never would have been imputed to me. Nay, further, had I not 'been a conscientious and earnest Catholic, determinedly adhering to what I bad been instructed was my religion, I never should have been in my present melancholy position. My Scotch marriage would have been consummated, and thus made valid. One of the most able judges held that the Irish marriage acted as a mid-impediment to the validity of the Scotch ; hence, on the one hand, I lose the legal marriage by my conscientious scru. plea, whilst, on the other hand, I am told those pretended scruples were a disgrace to humanity. B ut— I argue not 'gainst Heaven's hand or will, Nor bate one jot of heart or hope, but still bear up, And steer right onwards. "That I conceive to be my duty in the faith I am placed. "In respect to the reference to oath the process now before the Scotch court, and which will doubtless be adjudicated on and after the Christmas recess, permit me to correct your assumption that it consists of a mere declaration whether Major Yel verton did or did not go through the marriage cere mony in Scotland. If my last chance depended upon that, as you truly remark, it would be but a slender hope indeed, and would scarcely have been ad• vised by the able counsel conducting my case. Reference to oath, however, admits of the most searching cross-examination over the whole length and breadth of the case, embracing all the letters, all the evidence previously given, and any contradictions in this would entail perjury and its consequences. You may recollect that in the evidence given upon the Irish trial Major Yelverton admitted verbatim the whole of the marriage ser. vice at the chapel of Killowen, and that he intended to keep those vows, and denied that it was a mockery. For the information of those who have not read the Scotch case, I may mention that the whole of this evidence is therein denied. Had the same admissions been made in the Scotch case that were made in the Irish, my counsel are of opinion that they would have sufficed to prove a Scotch marriage. It is therefore easy to draw an inference of what the examination may result in.—l remain yours faithfully, " THERESA YELVERTON. " Oxenford Hotel, Edinburgh, Dee. 20, 1864." Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service. (From the Civil Service Gazette.) Home Office—A sub-inspectorship of factories has become vacant,by the death of Mr Savil Kent. Mr Harry King Evans has been appointed junior clerk in the office of the receiver for the metropoli. tan police district. The Admiralty—Mr John Russell has been ap pointed to be clerk in the director of works depart ment, Somerset House. Mr J. G. Coldo has been appointed to be clerk and accountant in the works department, Somerset House. The Post Office—Mr W. Wakefield has been ap pointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr J. Kingsniull has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank depart ment. Mr John T. Hodgson has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank depart ment. Mr T. G. Vaughton has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank depart. meat. Mr R. J. Mahon has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr J. Leach has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr F. C. Sadler has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings banks department. Mr Denison M. Wilkinson has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr John Pott has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Customs.—Mr George Frederick Dickens has been appointed an outdoor officer, London. Mr John Ord has been appointed an out-door officer, London. Mr William Tracey has been appointed an out-door officer, London. Mr Henry Brown, out-door officer, has been promoted to be an exa mining officer, 6th class, London. Mr James W. Tamsett, out-door officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr Hod. sell Manwaring, out-door officer, has been pro moted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr. Walter Furlong, out-door officer, has been pro rooted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr F. Healy, out-door officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr Joseph Salmon, outdoor officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr E. W. Jacobs, outdoor officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6:h class, London. Inland Revenue—Stamp and Tax Branch—The surveyorahip of taxes, Leeds, 2d district, has become vacant by the death of Mr N. R. Luca?. Mr A. Bindon has been appointed picker in the warehouse, Somerset House. Excise Branch—Mr William Jacques, supervisor, Antrim district, Belfast collection, has been ap pointed supervisor of Newport district, Southamp ton collection. Mr A. Priddis, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Antrim- district, Belfast col lection. Mr C. Chatterton Trim, examiner has been appointed supervisor of Hinckley distriet,:Leimter roHecticr, Business don, FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring MARCII. Derby Spring 2 Liverpool Spring Shrewsbury Spring AP Northampton 4 Croxton Park 7 Durham Newmarket Craven Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1 Chester York Spring .. .. Ju Epsom Summer (con.) 1 Manchester 7 Ascot Alexandra Park 2O Ju: Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract AUG Huntingdon Reading .. lO Egham Oxford York August 22 SEPTE' Weymouth (continued) 1 Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon lB OCTO Northallerton 5 I Newmarket Second Oct 9 NoTE: Worcester Autumn Doncaster Spring l4 Warwick Spring Chelmsford Spring Catterick Bridge Thirsk 2l Epsom Spring Salisbury Bath '23 Epsom Summer 3O I Hampton Newton Newcastle Worcester Summer 'LY. Nottingham Summer .. 18 Chesterfield Good wood I Plymouth .. 24 Lichfie:d . Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer .. 30 I Weymouth :MISER. Richmond Monmouth .... Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist October, 26 ,BER Newmarket Houghton.. 23 I Worcester Autumn .... 31 :MBER. (continued) 1 Now ready, G. SHELTONS Derby Guide, Is Glenie, Connaught -terrace, Hyde-park ; Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street; and all agents. LOCXET'S Derby Analysis at a glance shows what the field for the Blue Riband will be selected from ; and con tains also selections for all the great three-year-old contests, selections fcr Manchester meeting, Waterloo Cup, &c. Price one shilling; had from Sunday Times office, and all the usual agents, or from E. Locket, Box L 2, Manchester. FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—A. serious collision has taken place this week nine miles south by east of the Lizard. The smack Lemon, of Padstow, came into collision with the schooner Catherine, of Barmouth. The latter vessel sank almost immediately, and five seamen were drowned. The captain was saved by clinging to a rope until he was picked up by the Lemon. The lost vessel was laden with slates, The cause of the accident has not yet been stated. ARREST OF MR S. HARDINGE.—A few months since we announced the marriage of Mr S. Hardinge, an ex-lieutenant in the navy of the Northern States of Ame rica, to Miss Belle Boyd, a young lady whose patriotic devotion to the South had induced her to take an active part in the warfaro raging between the two sections of the American republic, and who, under circumstances which gave proof of much courage and devotion, repeatedly pene trated into the Northern lines and returned to her friends the bearers of important information. The marriage took place under romantic circumstances, as the lie tenant, smitten with the charms of Miss Boyd, connived at her escape from the vessel in which she was being cony eyed a prisoner; and afterwards, resigning his commission in the Northern service, followed her to London, where they were united at St. James's Church. We now learn that Mr Hardinge has been captured, He had crossed the At lantic to visit his friends and relatives, and in the:hope that he would be able to bring to Europe his wife's younger sister, who, residing with her mother at Martinsburg, in Virginia, was exposed to the brutality of the Northern soldiery, and was daily in danger of meeting with the grossest outrages at their hands. So far as is at present known he was seized, while at Mrs Boyd's house, by General Stephenson, commanding the post at Harper's Ferry, and is now lodged in the very prison at Washington in which bis wife was confined during some portion of her adventurous career, The danger which Miss Boyd ran may be estimated when it is stated that the country around her mother's house has been repeatedly the scene of desperate engagements, that the estate itself has been laid waste by the Northern troops, and that all the male members of the family are absent in the service of the South, the only person left to protect the mother and daughter being an old negro. THE ROYAL " BARON OF BEEF."—On Thursday the royal baron of beef was roasted before the great kitchen fire at Windsor Castle, and forwarded yesterday to Osborne, where, with the "boar's head" and "game pie," it will deck the Christmas sideboard of her Majesty. VOLTAIRE'S HEART.—The evening Itioniteur gives the following account of the translation of the heart of Voltaire to the Bibliotheque Imperiale, which event has pro voked commentaries of the most divers kinds :—" When Voltaire died, his heart, after a post-mortem examination, Was extracted from his body on the 31st of May, 1778, by order of the .Marquis De Villette, in whose house he stayed after his return to Paris. and wherein he died. The friend, the admirer of the great writer, desired to save this heart from the destruction which death occa sions, and it was placed in a metallic vessel and steeped in a chemical preparation calcu'ated to preserve it from decay. When, in execution of the law of May 30, 1791, which enacted that " the ashes of Voltaire should be trans • erred to the church of St. Genevieve, where they should receive the funereal honours due to great men," the funeral procession of Voltaire passed through the streets of Paris on July 11 of the same year, a halt was made before the mansion :of the Marquis De Villette, situated at the corner of the Rue de Beaune and the Quai Voltaire, and the Moniteur of July 13 records the fact that the reason for the pause was that Voltaire's heart was there. Shortly afterwards the heart. was re• moved to the Chateau do Vilette, in the arrondissement of Pont St Ma' ence(Oise) where it ever since remained, and was kept with veneration. But the Marquis de Vilette, his widow, and his son are dead; and their heirs having con sidered it a duty to give up this relic to the State, M. Leon Duval, a member of the order of Advocates of the hope. rial Court of Paris, having taken the Emperor's plea sure, his Majesty desired that a national asylum should be given in the Bibliotheque Imperiale to the heart o Voltaire, to the end that it may henceforth belong to France, pursuant to the intent of the law of Nth May, 1791. In obedience to his Majes;rs orders on Friday last, the 16th of this month, M. Duruy, the minister of public in struction, :proceeded to the Bibliotheque Imperiale, and there in presence of the Administrator-General of the estab lishment, accompanied by members of the Consultative Committee, he received from the hands of M. Leon Duval the heart of Voltaire enclosed in a recipient of gilt metal, on which is engraved these words :—" Le cont. de Voltaire, mort a Paris le XXX Moi MDCCLXXVIII." The Minister- declared that he took possession of this pre- cious deposit, and ordered that it should be provisionally kept with all the respect due to the mortal remains of this great man, in the best part of the Bibliothcque Impe- riale—that is to say, the department of medals—until the time when the new works shall be sufficiently advanced to permit of its definitive installation between the departments of manuscripts and prints, on the first floor of the Rotunda, between the junction of the Rues do Richelieu and Neuve des Petits Champs, where a room is destined to receive not only the heart of Voltaire, but also the original statue by Houdon, the medals struck in his honour, and the manu- script correspondence and printed works of the immortal writer. Proces verbal (i. e. a written record) was at once drawn up of this delivery and reception." The Official Gazette of Bavaria, in confirming the statements made by several journals relative to an autograph letter adlressed by King Louis to the King of Hanover on the question of the Duchies, announces that the reply received from Hanover is conceived in the most friendly terms. A communication from Berlin remarks that to deceive oneself as to the views of the Hanoverian Government would be unwise, as since the separation of the Duchies from Denmark Hanover has not concealed her antipathy for the cause of the Prince of Augustenburg, and has supported in a visible manner the candidateship of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. If, however, the change an nounced on the part of Prussia is confirmed, there is no doubt that Hanover will also modify her dispositi as. The Courrier du Bas.Ehin stales that the cola tivation of hops bee been greatly developed in that department within the last seven years, but more especially in the cantons of Birchwiller and Ha gue . nau. In the former, the area under this crop in 1857 was 743,0.2 perches (about 4,650 English acres), but in 1664 it had increased to 1,509,182 perches, or nearly double. The number of planters had also risen in the same period from 900 to 1,602. It is estimated that the cultivation of hops in the Bas Rhin now produces at least 10,000,000 f. annually. THIRD EDITION: SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. FRANCE. The France states that, according to advices from Rome, the Franco-Roman postal convention has been signed, and that all that remains to be now done is to exchange the ratifications. _ _ Marshal Megnan, in command of the Ist Corps d'At mee, yesterday reviewed at the Fort of Bieetre, the Ist battalion of foot chasseurs recently arrived from Mtxico. This fine body of men rephices in, the garrison of Paris the 16:h Chasseurs, which hr i e left for Algeria. - STATE OF TRADE, - s ~~~ MANCHESTER, DEC. 23.—The market for cotton goods generally has continued to improve since Tuesday, and on Wednesday and yesterday a good, deal of business was done, with a gradual advanc e in prices. Shipping yarns are gradually strength_ ening in price, and to-day—though there has been no excitement—higher prices have been paid for all descriptions as compared with yesterday. F or home trade yarns the market is very strong, with a fair business at Id to ld per lb. advance on the rates of Tuesday morning. In cloth there has been, a good business, with gradually improving pricQa ever since Tuesday. Yesterday a rather consider able business was effected, and probably more would have been done but for the check constantly aris ing out of the advance. The quotations of buyers have been constantly a little in advance of the prices. Buyers have been willing to give, and tha bulk of the business has been in goods ready for immediate shipment, or for which an early delivery could be guaranteed. Today there has been hardly so much business as during the two preceding days, but the tone of the market is exceedingly firm and the inquiry still keeps good. The princi. pal demand has been for cloths suitable to the mar-, kets of India, but other descriptions have shared to a fair extent in the attention of buyers. NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 23.—There was a fair attend ance at this Exchange to-day. The demand for lace yarns, although slow, was firm, and prices had an upward tendency. For hosiery yarns rates had also a tendency to stiffen. Silks were held at prey viou3 rates, but there was not much doing. For brown nets the demard was very fiat, but prices were much the same as heretofore. Hooker v. Burnaby. --~-- -- TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. Sin,—lt was far from toy desire to bring my name before the public in connection with this painful matter, which no one can more regret than myself; but Mr Hooker's letter in your columns of Tuesday leaves me no alternative, in common justice to Mr Burnaby, but to reply thereto, and give my statement of this unfortunate affair. I have for some time past had a shooting arrangement with the plaintiff, Mr Hooker, he finding the land and I paying all the other expenses, including gamekeeper. I very seldom avail myself of this shooting, and when I do generally stop at a farm in the neighbourhood belonging to my father. In September last I had invited Mr Burnaby and Lieut. Adderley (another brother officer), and upon their coming down I asked Mr Hooker to meet them. 'We dined together, and in the course of conversation atter din ner Mr Burnaby and Mr Hooker, who are both gentlemen of athletic proportions, discussed various subjects in con nection with throwing weights, and each boasted of his strength; some trials took place between them, and Mr Hooker to some extent lost hie temper, but at the close of the evening all parted on friendly terms, arranging to meet on the following day and shoot together. 'We did not meet in the early part of the day, as arranged, but eventually came together, and upon Mr Hooker propos, ing to shoot over some ground that we had been trying prior to our meeting, Mr Burnaby. objected, say, ing we should find no birds, to which Mr Hooker replied " that he did not understand shooting there, although, perhaps, he might in his own country," adding some taunting expressions as to Mr Bur naby's shooting. We had very little sport, and Mr Bur. naby about 2 o'clock in the day made an observation to the effect that he should advise me to give up the shooting. This seemed greatly to annoy Mr Hooker, who asked Mr Burnaby what he meant by interfering between him and myself, and also if Mr Burnaby imagined that he (Mr Hooker) had been over the ground before, to which the lat ter replied that he thought it probable he had. This remark appeared to further annoy Mr Hooker, who lost his temper ) asked Mr Burnaby if he intended to call him a poacher, say ing, "that although he might be an architect he got his living honestly. aed did not, as Mr Burnaby did, make money by swindling his brother officers, attending prize fights, and going into training for all sorts of blackguard affairs," that he, Mr Burnaby, " wished to get up a quar. rel," and then taunted him with being afraid to hit him for fear of getting a licking, adding, "if I did lick you you'd take the law of me." Upon this being said Mr Burnaby fired off his gun and offered to fight the quarrel out, when Mr Hooker said, " If you hit me, I'll blow your brains out." From this moment the dispute was carried through on both sides in a spirit of bitterness which, although most lamentable, it was futile to attempt to moderate. To me the quarrel was from the first a source of regret, knowing as I did both parties, having been acquainted for some years with Mr Hooker, and Mt Burnaby being my brother officer and guest. I did my best to make peaoe, and, having spoken to Mr Burnaby, who professed himself willing to adopt any course myself and Mr Adderley would suggest, I re peatedly spoke to Mr Hooker, and urged upon him to apolo-. gise for the gross insult he had offered to my friend in apply ing the term "swindler" to him ; and this term I insisted he should withdraw. Mr Hooker, however, positively re. fused to give any apology or to withdraw the word; and, after again conferring with Mr Adderley, we both felt we must leave matters to take their course, and that we had no alternative but to intimate to Mr Burnaby that he was, in our opinion, bound to resent the affront, and some two hours after the commencement of the quarrel, during which time both Mr Adderley and my-elf had anxiously attempted to amicably arrange matters, Mr Burnaby went up to Mr Hooker and demanded an apology, to which Mr Hooker replied " That he would not apologise to a bully like him self." That, afterwards took place has been described by Mr Burnaby in his letter, which has already appeared in The Sun, and I am prepared to pledge my word of honour to its strict accuracy. I state most positively that Mr Hooker was never upon the ground at all; that Mr Burnaby kicked him twice only; those kicks were adminise tered behind ; and Mr Burnaby did not strike Mr Hooker until the latter had seized his leg, and was endeavouring to throw him over. I wish to add that the statement I have now made I furnished to Mr Burnaby's solicitors; that Mr Adderley and myself attended the trial of the case, and both were p repared tcoaginvoet, t icy w evidence o to the effect knowledge, effect efmystate whether present statement. I n the offer to settle upon payment of £5O was made, except that Mr Burnaby himself so informed me when in the court, and stated he had refused to compromise the matter. I must express my regret at addressing you at this length, but I feel that I have only one course to pursue, and that is to place the correct facts before the public. I should have as readily done so had Mr Burnaby been in the wrong, and 1 only regret finding myself called upon to give the most explicit denial of the accuracy of Mr Hooker's statement, as it again appeared in hie letter of to-day—and, in addition, I avail myself of this opportunity of publicly contradicting the allegation advanced by Mr Hooker to the effect that I introduced the name of, or hinted at, Mr Burnaby's having beeu mistaken for another gentleman. In making these remarks, I feel that a very faithful state ment of a scuftla of this description can seldom be expected from the immediate parties. In conclusion, I wish to add that Mr Adderley is ac. quainted with the purport of this letter, and that I have his authority for saying that the statement I now beg the favour of your affording a place in your columns is, in his opinion, strictly correct.--I have the honour to remain, sir, your most obedient servant, H. E. WRSTCAR, Royal Horse Guards, Regent's-park Barracks, Dec. 20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU N". Westcar, of my regiment, has written you a letter in connexion with this affair, for the st r i c t accuracy o f which i as myself an d b rother o ffi cers do, trial we re t rue i n su b s t ance , thath I if f vouch the ; report oftthis and if Mr Burnaby hadscommitted the brutal assault laid to his charge, he would be unfit to remain our associate, I look to that spirit of fair play which is always accorded by the press to all classes to ask the favour of your permitting me through your columns to state most positively that Mr Hooker and his witness most grossly exaggerate the real facts of this case. I speak as an independent eyewitness of the entire affair from beginning to end, and pledge my word that Mr Burnaby never kicked Mr Hooker in any part of his person, save in the first instance giv i ng him one or two kicks behind. The scuffle did not occupy two minutes ;no blow was struck by Mr Burnaby until his leg had been laid hold of by his oppone nt, and immediately he was released he ceased striking. In fact, however much the matter is to be regretted, it was one of those fracas of the moment between two hot-blooded men equally mat c hed as to size and stren gth, and the plaintiff and his witnesses have enlarged this into an assault of a most violent and disgraceful character. I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, M. B. B. ADDERLEY, Royal Horse Guards. Regent's-park Barracks, Dec. 20. [With these communications the correspondence must (Am in our eolumns.7 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. WATERLOO COURSING CUP. 20 to 1 agst Mr Spinks's nomination (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lord Uffington's nomination (effared) 22 to I agst Mr Haywood's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr Jardine's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr Blanchard's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr Bake's nomination (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Mr Iva Campbell's nomination (offered) 44 to 1 agst Mr Stocker's nomination taken and offered) THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Liddington (offered) 500 to 50 agst Breadalbane (taken) 15 to 1 agst The Duke (nominal) 100 to 7 agst Chattanooga (offered) 22 to 1 agst Christmas Carol ( ffelei) 25 to 1 apt Brother to islinie (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lo:igdown (taken) 33 to 1 agst Ariel (cffered) 40 to 1 agst Zambezi (taken) GG to 1 agst Congress (taken) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865. JANUARY. Manchester .. 2